New Owner Tries To Micromanage, Fires Employee On The Spot

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mattstaff
Sep 15, 2019 11:00 PM EDT

Sounds like this new owner has no business running a business! Their micromanaging move backfired in spectacular fashion, and next thing they knew they were overseeing an empty office, after the employees walked out in protest. 

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    revenge - Text - r/ProRevenge u/persondude27 5d JOIN 1 Yell at me and my staff? Fine, good luck running the office on your own. I used to work in a small family-owned doctors office. A couple of years in, they got a legal fight and experience staff started leaving. Being young and dumb, I wanted to be loyal and ended up managing half of the doctor's office.
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    revenge - Text - The other half was managed by Brittany. She had team of three that did the work of six The company got bought, and a new owner came in. He was like Danny DeVito in gold chains and a bad toupee. He was dumb and no one respected him. He screamed constantly, about little things at anyone. He micromanaged and didn't bother to understand someone's job before telling them how to do it better. He tried to streamline processes without knowing how they worked. But mostly, he yelled.
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    revenge - Text - One day, the hardest working person in the entire clinic, a nurse who started every appointment, was a few minutes late. She was a single mother and her kid was sick, so she showed up less than ten minutes later than usual. Danny proceeded to berate the nurse in front of the entire office - scream about dumb things like being a few minutes late, then strange things like how she wrote dates, then absurd things like how her bedside manner sucked (she had gotten flowers the day bef
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    revenge - Text - When the nurse put in her notice at the end of the day, Danny fired her on the spot. Told her to leave and never come back. I had been job searching, and had actually gotten an offer. I was planning on giving a lot of notice but couldn't give notice if I'd be fired immediately - I had student loans and was paycheck-to- paycheck
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    revenge - Text - I grabbed the two remaining members of the admin staff and explained that I was going to quit without notice before too long. Brittany understood, and said she too was in the final stages of taking a new job. We agreed that we would quietly all find new jobs, then duck out when it was convenient. We had to quietly let all the other staff know, and each of us quietly started smuggling our personal effects out of the office. I had a start date two weeks out, but honestly couldn't
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    revenge - Text - A week or so later, Danny started screaming about the color of tape I'd used to duct tape down a power cable months before. I had used orange and yellow to make it more visible, but Danny said that was unprofessional. I asked him how he'd like me to fix it. Danny: "Well, that's not my problem. That's yours." I paused for a second and said... Me: "You know, I don't think it is my problem. I'm out."
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    revenge - Text - I grabbed my small box of desk things howled at me: Danny: "You will never find another job in this town! I own every doctor's office in this county! I don't need you, since I've got Brittany" Brittany looked at him and said: [Brittany: "I'd been meaning to tell you that today is my last day."
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    revenge - Text - We packed our things and walked out, as Danny called the cops saying his employees were stealing things like their own birthday cards and pictures of their kids. We texted the third employee (who was on lunch) and explained what happened it sounds like she didn't go back. And without front desk, billing, or nursing staff, a doctor's office simply can't run I'm told they were closed for almost two weeks before they got temporary employees, but had no one to train them.
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    revenge - Text - Danny shuttered and re-sold the business a few months later to the Big Dog in the industry, which is a charity. Since their books are open, we saw that they bought the company (really just the
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    revenge - Text - clients list) for about 15% less than what Danny had paid a few months prior. TL;DR: New owner tries to micromanage, fires employee on the spot. Rest of staff fires him on the spot, he loses millions. Edit: bit more information. The police did show up, and one of the officers who responded was patient we had treated for months. Weeks later, Danny tried to withhold our final paychecks claiming that we forfeited wages if we didn't give notice (illegal) and that we had stolen "valu
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